Welcome to the website of Hey, Mozart! New Mexico, a music composition project for children resident in New Mexico and aged 12 and under. See below information on the composers selected in 2008.

Join us for a concert featuring all 16 composers in Albuquerque on September 12, 2008 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Bienvenidos a la página web de Hey, Mozart! New Mexico, un concurso de composición de música para niños residentes en Nuevo México y tienen 12 años por abajo. Véase abajo la información sobre los compositores seleccionados en 2008.

Les invitamos a presenciar el concierto con los 16 compositores jóvenes que tendrá lugar el 12 de septiembre de 2008 en el Centro Internacional de Cultural Hispana ubicado en Albuquerque con la colaboración de la Orquestra Sinfónica de Nuevo México.

Hey, Mozart! New Mexico Selects Composers for 2008

The compositions of 16 young New Mexico composers have been selected for the 2008 Hey, Mozart! New Mexico project from a record number of 264 entries. Honorable mentions were given to 18 composers. The 16 finalists will perform their works at a concert on September 12 and a CD recording will be made.

The 2008 finalists are Jocelyn Boyack, 7, Dana Brener, 12, George Laird, 8, Simon Laird, 12, Abbie Reeves, 10, Tankred Steinbach, 10, and Amy Thomas, 9, of Albuquerque; Jaimi Donaldson, 11, Levi Doyle, 8, Andrew McLaughlin, 11, and Amalia Zeitlin, 12, of Las Cruces; Jade Kennedy, 6, and Jasmine Kennedy, 9, of Santa Fe; Thomas Chadwick, 7, of Los Alamos; and Sara Jo Samora, 8, of Clovis.

Receiving honorable mentions are: Tanner Boyack, 9, Leedy Corbin, 5, Dylan Cuellar, 11, Jett Facey, 8, Abby Herrick, 8, Sam Herrick, 10, Malia Kao, 12, Megan Rohrer, 11, Sarah Velasco, 10, of Albuquerque; Autumn Chavez-Repp, 11, and Phillip Miller, 12, of Las Cruces; Abigail Bugg, 9, of Clovis; Leonardo Escamilla III, 9, of Anthony; Melanie Green, 9, of Rio Rancho; Noah Haarmann, 9, of Jemez Pueblo; Eliza Harrison, 11, of Santa Fe; Ella Kirk, 8, of Silver City; and Elijah Salazar-Menzies, 7, of Espanola.

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Hey, Mozart! New Mexico
P.O. box 82743
Albuquerque, NM 87198
(505) 250-2341
heymozartnm@gmail.com
www.heymozartnm.org

President: Brookes McIntyre
Artistic Director: Alejandro Rutty
Music Director: David Felberg
Director of Education: Jim Wright

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